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...high level of hockey, the European style of play and the suddenness of it all certainly left an indelible mark on the youngster...
This was another Grove passion: opera. Seduced by Carmen's "Toreador March" as a youngster, Grove dreamed of becoming an opera singer. He took lessons and sang around school. And in the weeks before he fled Hungary, Grove and a handful of classmates sang the first, murderously lovely scene of Don Giovanni in a Budapest recital. Grove can't remember if he took the part of the footman Leporello (who beseeches, "Potessi almeno di qua partir!" [I wish I could escape!]) or the blackguard Don Giovanni (who bellows, "Misiero! attendi se vuio morir!" [Wretch, stay if you would...
During the course of her trial, some of the defendants and witnesses disappeared, and later some said they had perjured themselves to protect Madikizela-Mandela. From his prison cell, Richardson claimed she not only ordered Seipei's murder but also told him to kill another youngster, a girl she believed to be a police informer. Last week Katiza Cebekhulu, who said he was smuggled out of the country to prevent his giving testimony linking her to a number of Soweto murders, was one of more than 40 people called by the Truth Commission to testify to the activities of Winnie...
...attitudes expressed by respondents to the TIME/CNN poll are all the more remarkable given that outside of school, black teens and white teens most often live in separate neighborhoods and sometimes, it seems, on separate planets. Danny, 17, a white Chicago youngster interviewed by TIME, professed to having "more black friends than I do white friends" but also admitted that "we just talk in school" and that he never visits the homes of his black buddies, who tend to live in crime-plagued housing projects...
Bias crimes, however, one of the most obvious expressions of racism, are still a fact of teen life. According to Justice Department statistics, the number of hate crimes reported nationwide rose 10% from 1995 to 1996 (the jump could be due to better reporting). In Chicago black youngster Lenard Clark, 13, was beaten into a coma in March, allegedly by a group of white teens. "This is not about race," argues Tommy, 23, a white resident of Bridgeport, the neighborhood where Clark's beating took place. "A lot of times it's about territory. If we fight with black guys...